HE TABLET.
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From the B r i e f o f H is Holiness P iu s IX . to T he T a b let , J u n e 4, 18 7 0.
V o l . 81. No. 2748. L o n d o n , J a n u a r y 7, 1893.
P r ic e sd . , b y P o st 5 %d.
[R e g i s t e r e d a t t h e G e n e r a l P o st Of f i c e a s a N ew s p a p e r .
C h ro n ic le of t h e W e e k :
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The Adventure o f the “ Umbria ’’—The Religious Question in Hungary—The Indian National Congress—The Belgian Reform B ill—Lord Winchelsea’s Scheme— The Agricultural Union—The Unemployed—Sir Edward Clarke and the Ministry—The Eight Hours’ D ay—Mr. Labouchere on the Home Rule Bill—Death of the Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem—-An Egyptian Wedding—Labour Riots in Holland—Dervish Raid near Wady Haifa — The Liberator Building Society — Lynching in Carolina . . . . . . . . i L e a d e r s :
The Meeting at Archbishop’s
House . . . . . . . . 5 The School Question in the United
States . . ........................... 5
CONTENTS.
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L e a d e r s (continued) :
The Pope and Italian Politics . . 6 Mr. Burne Jones at the New
G a l l e r y ............................................. 7 A b j u r a t i o n s ............................................. 3 Assyria, Rome, and Canterbury . . 9 Christian Art . . . . . . . . 10 N o t e s ............................................................1 4 A Monastic P i c t u r e ................................15
C o rr e s po n d en c e :
Rome :—(From Our Own Corre
spondent) . . . . .• •• 17 Dublin (From Our Own Corre
spondent) . . . . . . ..18
L e t t e r s to t h e E d it o r :
Happiness in Hell . . . . . . 19 University of London . . . . 20 R e v iew s :
Sultan to S u l t a n ...........................20 Singularly Deluded . . . . 21 Light in Heaven . . . . . . 22 The Irish Chief Secretary and the
National Teachers . . . . . . 22 The Lord Mayor in Dublin.. . . 22 The American School Question . . 24 Some Impressions of a Convert . . 26 The New Irish Cardinal . . . . 27 S o c ia l a n d P o l it ic a l . . . . 28
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S U P P L EM E N T . D ec is io n s o f R oman C o n g r eg a
t io n s .......................... . . . . 33 N ew s from t h e S chools :
Our Educational Outlook.. . . 33 Technical Education and Cookery 35 Speech Day at St. Ignatius’ Col
lege, Malta ............................... 35 About E d u c a t io n ............................... 35 N ew s from t h e D io c e s e s : Westminster ............................... 36
Southwark . . . . . . . . 36 Newport and Menevia . . . . 36 Portsm outh........................................... 37 Salford . . . . . . • • 37 The Irish Pilgrimage to Rome . . 37 A p p e a l to t h e C h a r it a b l e 3*
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CHRONICLE OF THE WEEK.
T H E A D V EN TU R E OF T H E “ U M B R IA . ” T
H E five hundred passengers who left by the famous Cunarder expecting to spend Christmas Eve in New York, had to be con
tent with arriving there on the eve of the New Year instead. When some 700 miles from the American shore, the shaft of the vessel suddenly snapped and the ship drifted helplessly during a heavy storm for some 12 hours. There was very little commotion among the ladies when they were informed of the situation, everybody apparently having perfect confidence in the seaworthiness of the Umbria. The chief steward removed one cause of anxiety by stating that they had enough provisions on board to last three weeks without stinting in the least. During the storm oil was poured upon the water through the drainage pipes of the ship—it is stated that she was much more quiet than when her machinery was in motion. On the morning of Saturday everybody ran on deck on hearing several reports of a gun, and saw that there was a ship upon the horizon bound eastward. The signals soon attracted the attention of the stranger, which proved to be the Bohem ia, bound for Hamburgh. In a very short time she was connected with the disabled liner by a steel hawser. All the afternoon the Bohem ia struggled to drag the big ship in the teeth of the wind, but the weather grew more and more violent and at night the snow fell so thickly that the two vessels could not see each other. At midnight the hawser broke, and it is since stated that it was cut with a file by those on board the Bohem ia . The result was that the Umbria was again helplessly drifting before the storm, and nothing more was seen of the Bohem ia . On the Sunday, a Wilson liner, bound for Philadelphia, was sighted and spoken, but it was explained that she had not sufficient coal to enable her to take the disabled vessel in tow. This statement has since been contradicted, and it may be surmised that the Captain of the Umbria, feeling confidence in his ability to repair the machinery in a day or so, and yet unwilling to exasperate impatient or frightened passengers, told them several things that were not. On the Monday the Manhansett bore down upon them, and the passengers again looked forward to being taken in tow, when the G a l l ia , a sister Cunarder, going
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East, appeared upon the scene. Of course the former vessel then sheered off, but in reply to the Umbria’s signal, “ Disabled— stand by,” the G a l l ia is said to have replied, “ Can’t stand by— carrying mails.” The U v ib ria then returned, “ We hold you responsible,” but the G a l l ia dipped her ensign and went. On the part of the captain of the G a l l ia , it is understood that the whole of this statement is denied, and again it is surmised that advantage was taken by the officers of the Umbria of the passengers’ want of familiarity with nautical signals to let them suppose that aid had been refused. Left to their own resources, the officers of the Umbria proved equal to the crisis, and performed a feat of engineering which, under the circumstances, may well be described as remarkable. The broken shaft was 13 inches in diameter, and of solid steel, but in spite of the absence of adequate machinery, Mr. Tomlinson, the chief engineer, with the vessel rolling and pitching in a heavy sea, drilled three holes into it, and fitted steel bolts five inches in diameter into them, with the result that at the end of the fourth day after the mishap the vessel was able to resume her course, and steamed slowly into the harbour of New York.
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The Budapest correspondent of the Neue
F r e le jPresse’ in a dispatch to that journal, i n H u n g a r y , declares that he has been informed by an ecclesiastical dignitary who is in a position to know the facts, that Mgr. Vaszary, the Primate of Hungary, is now engaged in carrying out the resolution adopted at the recent Conference of the episcopate, and, in conformity with the decisions arrived at, in drafting an address to the Pope, the Emperor Francis Joseph, and the Government. It is further affirmed that the Hungarian Bishops are animated by friendly dispositions towards the civil Government, and the same authority denies that the Vatican out of animosity to the Triple Alliance is creating difficulties in Hungary. It is understood that in the address to the Pope the Bishops will set forth the religious conditions of Hungary, showing that the Catholics number 52 per cent, of the population, while 48 per cent, belong to other religious denominations. I f the Vatican takes this into account, it is said, there will be ample groundforarrivingat a compromise in regard to the questions at issue, and the hope is entertained that as far as the civil marriage question is concerned, a compromise will prevail. Respecting the substitution of the official registration of births for the baptismal certificates now furnished by the priests, the Bishops merely express doubts as to the practicability of carrying out the proposed change. As to the official recognition of the Jewish faith,
